Been a while!

I haven't posted a diving report in a while! Water is cool out there now but still hovering around 68-72 in the 110' and deeper mark in and near Elton Bottom.

Some big fish came out of those areas this week. Dr D had a HUGE cubera snapper 66# gutted! A monster!

Jacksonville Offshore Diving Report - HL Culverts, Ledges, EF

Headed out of Mayport yesterday to do a few dives and try to get some fish. We first stopped and picked up some live bait at the twin wrecks 6 miles east of the inlet so we could do some bottom fishing too. Not much there - we found our best bait at the BB culverts.

We motored out to the Harm's Ledge area to start. We hit some culverts first. Visibility was about 40 ft and the water was just perfect. Tommy came up with 2 fat gag groupers and a nice scamp. We fished there a bit too with not much to show for it except for a couple short grouper. We didn't see any keeper snapper at all.

We moved in the same area and did a couple more ledge dives just to the south. The vis was great but we didn't pick up much except for a few flounder. We moved back inshore to the EF area and hit the Red Rock ledge. Tommy shot a nice snapper; I didn't see too much except for a few flounder. Visibility dropped to about 15 ft here.

Our last dive was the EF culverts. Grouper were all over the outer edges but they would not let us close enough to get a shot.

A great day diving, we didn't catch much of anything on hook and line though.

Jacksonville Party Grounds Diving Report

2 of us dove yesterday with pretty good results. Hitting the areas in and near CH and EF we had visibility from 20-30ft, little to no current but the jellyfish were pretty thick in the water column.

We brought home around 10 nice flounder, 5 red snapper to 15 pounds, 1 gag around 12 pounds and a 30lb Amberjack for the smoker.

Offshore Mayport Dive Conditions

Vis is still great. Got a good report from someone in 80' of water said they were only 30 ft below the surface and could already see the bottom. Lots of grouper, mangrove snapper and flounder to go around. Go get them while conditions are good!

Good diving, good fish, good vis

The vis and fishing continues to be good off of Jax. Reports of 25-35ft have been coming in with sightings of snapper everywhere. Most divers and fisherman have been easily catching their limit from 6 to 40 miles offshore.

Water warming up!

Well a few reports came in from the weekend and it seems the diving conditions are improving. Bottom temps of 72 with 10-30ft of visibility came in from 75-120ft of water. The 21 bottom area is a little cooler in the mid 60's still.

Jacksonville diving still blacked out

No good scuba diving reports have came in off of Jacksonville. Everything I am hearing is cold water and no visibility.

Normally a hurricane swell makes things work but maybe Hurricane Bill and it's swells will help move some things around and improve our dive visibility.